Disability & international development : towards inclusive global health /
Situates disability rights within the broader context of global health and the need for much greater inter-sector collaboration. This book is suitable for professionals in rehabilitation, social welfare and human rights; governmental and non-governmental organizations and disabled people's orga...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; New York :
Springer,
©2009.
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| ISBN: | 9780387938400 0387938400 0387938435 9780387938431 9786612290671 6612290676 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- From the local to the global: the many contexts of disability and international development / Leslie Swartz and Malcolm MacLachlan
- The effect of failed states on the well-being and lives of people with disabilities / Mitchell Loeb
- The impact of international human rights law on the national laws of Ethiopia from a gender rights and disability rights perspective / Theresa Rouger
- Building an inclusive national strategy for disabled children in Kyrgyzstan through an application of the BIAS FREE framework / Mary Anne Burke and Andrea Pupulin
- Networking in disability for development: introducing the African Network for Evidence-to-Action on Disability (AfriNEAD) / Gubela Mji, Siphokazi Gcaza, Natalie Melling-Williams, and Malcolm MacLachlan
- Building disability research capacity in low-income contexts: possibilities and challenges / Leslie Swartz
- Empowerment, advocacy and national development policy: a case study of disabled peoples' organizations in Bolivia / Marianne Griffiths, Hasheem Mannan, and Malcolm MacLachlan
- Cultural challenges in piloting disability surveys in Papua New Guinea / Patricia Thornton
- Disability and HIV/AIDS: a key development issue / Poul Rohleder, Leslie Swartz, and John Philander
- Assistive technology in low-income countries / Arne H. Eide and Tone Øderud
- Childhood disability in Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone: an exploratory analysis / Cliona O'Sullivan and Malcolm MacLachlan
- Education, disability, and international development / Petra Engelbrecht, Ansie Kitching, and Willy Nel
- Listening to the voices of disability: experiences of caring for children with cerebral palsy in a rural South African setting / Joanne Barratt and Claire Penn.